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If I were to ask you to tell me what Christmas really means, I’m sure many of you would do what I tend to do: In your head, you begin to picture “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and the scene where Linus recites Luke 2:8-14 to the whole gang after Charlie Brown asks if anyone knows the true meaning of Christmas.

People are going to come that may make you uncomfortable - those who are lost and trapped in their sins. Don’t focus on the sin and trying to change their behavior. Instead, focus on loving them and presenting the Gospel to them in a way that they can understand.

While the worship team was leading us in songs of thanksgiving, I was fighting back tears, doing my best to not lose it in front of the 1,500 or so people there. You see, this was a place we had poured our blood (literally), sweat, and tears into.

It’s time that our generation rises up, and we stop depending on our parents and grandparents to fight our battles. This is a battle we’ve been ignoring, while consumed in our social media lives. Instead of fighting for a cause, we would often rather just hit the ‘like’ button on the fan pages of the charities we think are relevant

Your lifestyle changes when you become employed. You don't still live as if you were a student. Now, I may be jumping out on a limb, but hear me out; a lot of Christians are still living as if they are sin employed, their days being run by the vigorous desires of the flesh.

If you know you’re in the will of God for your life and yet you seem to still be struggling to push though the days, feeling as if you can’t keep doing it all it does not mean you are a failure, it just means you need to trade in your scale for the season you are in.